It just amazes me how some greens continue to entertain the notion that authoritarianism might be better for the future of humanity than democracy. Two years removed from a historic election, in which a black man was elected president of the world's longest-lasting democratic government, try wrapping your mind around this question posed at Grist:
Is China's quasi-dictatorship better prepared than our mess of a democracy?
There are a few messy facts that China's enviro admirers conveniently ignore when they conduct this kind of thought experiment. I could tick off a bunch but I'll simply state the most obvious. In China, you can't pose a question like this on a popular website: Is America's aging, flawed democracy better prepared for the 21st century than China's corrupt, quasi-communist dictatorship? Or you'd think that green fans of China might at least ask themselves that question and wonder, which system would I like ...
